We scrambled a pair of fighters—two armed fighter jets in constant readiness—as well as an early warning aircraft and a refueling aircraft.”
The defense systems maintained continuous monitoring while tracking the targets operating near the national boundary.
“In the west of Ukraine we saw at least a dozen objects moving at a short distance from our border.
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The closest came up to about five kilometers to the Polish border and then turned away,” Goryszewski added.
Despite the initial all-clear, radars detected a separate object flying westward inside Polish territory around 3:40 a.
m. , prompting an F-16 to intercept before the object vanished from radar.
“Our systems ran at full capacity all night to ensure the safety of our airspace.
We had one aircraft in the air and two fighter jets ready for action at any time,” Goryszewski said.
Crater and Debris Found Near Tarnawa-Kolonia
Investigators and emergency forces later located a crater approximately ten meters in diameter and scattered debris in a field roughly two kilometers from the nearest residential buildings in Tarnawa-Kolonia.
“Around 3:40 a. m.
we detected an object in our airspace, which is currently being examined by the relevant services.
Only after completion of this work will it be possible to say what came down in Tarnawa-Kolonia,” Goryszewski noted.
Military personnel continue to analyze the crash site to determine the precise nature of the fallen debris.
“An unambiguous identification was probably not successful because the object crashed at the exact moment the F-16 approached,” he added.
Former intelligence officer Colonel Andrzej Derlatka stated on TVP Info that the object was likely either a stray missile from the Russian barrage or a Ukrainian air defense missile attempting an interception.
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Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz commended the response teams, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the formation of a special coordination team to monitor ongoing developments.
